Wednesday, December 15, 2010

"The first day of school our professor introduced himself and challenged us to get to know someone we didn't already know. I stood up to look around when a gentle hand touched my shoulder.

I turned around to find a wrinkled, little old lady beaming up at me with a smile that lit up her entire being..

She said, 'Hi handsome. My name is Rose. I'm eighty-seven years old. Can I give you a hug?'

I laughed and enthusiastically responded, 'Of course you may!' and she gave me a giant squeeze..

'Why are you in college at such a young, innocent age?' I asked.

She jokingly replied, 'I'm here to meet a rich husband, get married, and have a couple of kids...'

'No seriously,' I asked. I was curious what may have motivated her to be taking on this challenge at her age.

'I always dreamed of having a college education and now I'm getting one!' she told me.

After class we walked to the student union building and shared a chocolate milkshake.

We became instant friends. Every day for the next three months we would leave class together and talk nonstop. I was always mesmerized listening to this 'time machine' as she shared her wisdom and experience with me..

Over the course of the year, Rose became a campus icon and she easily made friends wherever she went. She loved to dress up and she revelled in the attention bestowed upon her from the other students. She was living it up.

At the end of the semester we invited Rose to speak at our football banquet. I'll never forget what she taught us. She was introduced and stepped up to the podium. As she began to deliver her prepared speech, she dropped her three by five cards on the floor.

Frustrated and a little embarrassed she leaned into the microphone and simply said, 'I'm sorry I'm so jittery. I gave up beer for Lent and this whiskey is killing me! I'll never get my speech back in order so let me just tell you what I know.'

As we laughed she cleared her throat and began, ' We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing.

There are only four secrets to staying young, being happy, and achieving success. You have to laugh and find humour every day. You've got to have a dream. When you lose your dreams, you die.

We have so many people walking around who are dead and don't even know it!

There is a huge difference between growing older and growing up.

If you are nineteen years old and lie in bed for one full year and don't do one productive thing, you will turn twenty years old. If I am eighty-seven years old and stay in bed for a year and never do anything I will turn eighty-eight.

Anybody! Can grow older. That doesn't take any talent or ability. The idea is to grow up by always finding opportunity in change. Have no regrets.

The elderly usually don't have regrets for what we did, but rather for things we did not do. The only people who fear death are those with regrets..'

She concluded her speech by courageously singing 'The Rose.'

She challenged each of us to study the lyrics and live them out in our daily lives. At the year's end Rose finished the college degree she had begun all those months ago.

One week after graduation Rose died peacefully in her sleep.

Over two thousand college students attended her funeral in tribute to the wonderful woman who taught by example that it's never too late to be all you can possibly be.

REMEMBER, GROWING OLDER IS MANDATORY. GROWING UP IS OPTIONAL. We make a Living by what we get. We make a Life by what we give. God promises a safe landing, not a calm passage. If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it.

'Good friends are like stars..... .....You don't always see them, but you know they are always there.'

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

It all started by a mua twitting for food hunting and it subsequently linked to facebook la! and Jonathan commented....and then we ended up with the plan for bah kut teh! =D

so...first stop, of course bah kut teh la! duuuh!

I'm suprised by this, instead of them asking us what do we want for tea, they placed a whole basket of tea there! awesome idea...... =)

ah let me introduce you to the cast of the day! haha

Jonathan, Ken, my sis, MeowTing, and mua =D

and the food we hentam!

before we even knew, the food was all gonee....

look carefully on the pic below...

food all dah hilang....

next stop!

the famous Cendol in Klang...

and walaa....our cendol after waiting...errr 5 minutes? haha

and so we try...

verdict: disappointing giler!!! sorry la, but i was expecting much nicer since it was like really famous...Penang one better =P

after cendol....we were supposed to go for Seafood immediately...but oh well, we sort of ended up exploring every part of Klang...hahaha mind you, we have someone KONONNYA claimed that she's been in Klang for 22 years already.*ahem ahem* haha

anyways...due to the de-tour...

oh ya! and we bought snacks and makan in the car as well.....

after searching high and low, left and right, up and down, north and south, east and west.....AT LAST! we found the place....thanks to my BB =P

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About Me

what about me? a little simple person from a little small island. could not EVER live life without music & sports. love basketball and badminton, I like football too but somehow I sucks in it. have been stuck with music since small, I'M LOVIN' IT, able to play a few instruments. love my family and of course my friends as well. love to travel BEACHES *wink wink*, love to go shopping I KNOW I'M A GUY, SO??? I PARTY to the max, it is a whole different me when u see me party and the way I behave usually. apparently everyone says NO DIFFERENCES =S well anyway who cares, juz live life to the max, I do not give a shit what people think about me but i hate backstabbers and pretenders. so those people who I'm talking about, get a life and leave my life alone. HAHA well, enjoy reading this? juz try to know me k k? =)